Monday, 18 Aug 2025

UN conference hears litany of water disasters linked to climate crisis

UN conference hears litany of water disasters linked to climate crisis


UN conference hears litany of water disasters linked to climate crisis

Last year more than 40,000 people, half of them children, died from drought in Somalia while a third of Pakistan was inundated after catastrophic floods. Agricultural yields have fallen sharply in parts of Europe and China after a string of drought years, and last month Cyclone Freddy brought catastrophic floods to southern Africa.

Resiliency measures and climate adaptation are also woefully underfunded.

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